Intel Core Ultra 7 165H vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.4 GHz Intel Core Ultra 7 165H with 16-cores against the 2.0 GHz AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with 10-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
NanoReview Final Score
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 365 and 165H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 7 nanometers
  • Newer - released 6 months later
  • 21% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2976 vs 2465 points

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (169th and 137th place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 1250 MB/sec 1240 MB/sec
Clang compilation 105.2 Klines/sec 101.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 301.6 pages/sec 296.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 375 Mpixels/sec 437.7 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 256.1 pages/sec 289 pages/sec
Background blur 51.3 images/sec 65.4 images/sec
Photo processing 108.4 images/sec 122.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 20.6 Mpixels/sec 25.9 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 131 & 1 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 89 GOps/sec 103.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 65.5 GOps/sec 64.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 120M Primes/sec 120M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 33.4M Strings/sec 40.6M Strings/sec
Data encryption 17.1 GBytes/sec 18.8 GBytes/sec
Data compression 291 MBytes/sec 370.7 MBytes/sec
Physics 1816 Frames/sec 1711 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 17.2B Matrices/sec 26.3B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 1738 & 879 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
250.34

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 33.8 PPW 19.9 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 463.5 PPW 258.7 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 923.4 PPW 562 PPW
Blender / Watt 7.57 PPW 4.64 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-21 (laduran)Geekbench 6 CPU2470 / 13442
AMD Ryzen AI 9 365
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-11 (Mark)Cinebench 2024117 / 1077
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-10 (rrevi)Geekbench 6 CPU2967 / 15033

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 7 165H and AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 June 3, 2024
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 5 (Strix Point)
Model number 165H 365
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 880M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS - Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 7 265H - AMD Ryzen AI 9 465
Intel CPU rating (#89th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#38th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 4
P-Threads 12 8
Base Frequency (P) 1.4 GHz 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5 GHz 5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 10 6
E-Threads 10 12
Base Frequency (E) 0.9 GHz 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.8 GHz 3.3 GHz
Total
Total Cores 16 10
Total Threads 22 20
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 14x 20x
L1 Cache 112K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 24MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 28 W 15-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FP8
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (113th and 62nd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics (8-Cores) AMD Radeon 880M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2300 MHz 2900 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 32 16
Execution Units 128 12
TGP 28 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
4.7 TFLOPS
4.5 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5X-8000
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s 89.6 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 7 165H official page AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 16

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